Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

Our Company At Quantum, we connect global brands with high-intent consumers. We turn intent into action and complexity into clarity. Our Mission is clear, to help smarter, faster buying decisions. Our vision, to be the world’s most used digital comparison service, delivering value and simplicity to millions. We drive growth through data-driven affiliate marketing built for performance from day one. Every campaign is measurable, optimised in real time, and designed to scale. With in-house tech, full-stack analytics, and a compliance-first mindset, we give our partners an edge. We drive confident decisions and growth in regulated and high-growth sectors. We’ve helped ambitious brands grow faster, smarter, and globally. The Role Our Talent Acquisition team is growing! We’re looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager to join our team in London. In this role you will act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on hiring, own our most complex and senior searches from intake through offer and acceptance, and lead improvements that help the whole TA team hire faster and rely less on agencies. This is a senior individual contributor role, working as a peer to our TA Managers. Key Responsibilities - Own senior, confidential and particularly complex searches personally, from intake through offer and acceptance, sourcing directly and building the pipeline yourself - Translate the approved hiring plan into a delivery plan for your portfolio, advising the Head of TA on capacity, trade-offs and risks, and recommending agency or tool use where it is needed - Partner with senior business leaders as a trusted advisor on hiring strategy, talent availability, market conditions and compensation, challenging requirements when the evidence supports a change - Bring market insight and talent data into conversations with hiring managers, and turn business goals into hiring plans and targets - Coach hiring managers beyond process compliance, helping them spot gaps, bias and blind spots and make fair, consistent, evidence-based decisions - Improve intake quality, structured assessment, interviewer preparation and candidate communication, and take ownership of the improvement projects agreed with the Head of TA - Lead reviews of your searches, and facilitate wider reviews when agreed with the Head of TA, to spot stalled searches, weak pipelines and decision delays - Strengthen candidate experience, turn candidate feedback into improvements and support employer brand activity where agreed - Share search expertise, mentor peers and support the TA Specialist on complex briefs, leading through expertise and influence rather than line authority - Keep Ashby data reliable, report delivery forecasts, funnel conversion, offer outcomes, quality of hire and risks, and build on our AI-led recruitment tools with people making every hiring decision About You - Experience delivering senior or complex recruitment in-house, having personally owned end-to-end hiring across multiple role types and levels, not only managed a team that does it - A track record in targeted recruitment campaigns and direct sourcing, with clear examples of what you built and what it produced - Experience influencing and challenging senior leaders and hiring managers as a trusted advisor on talent decisions, without line authority (formal line management experience is not required) - Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to turn business goals into hiring plans and targets - Excellent assessment skills and a good eye for potential, with a commitment to inclusive, structured hiring - Confident using recruitment data and market insight to diagnose problems, forecast delivery and check whether changes are working, with familiarity with ATS platforms and recruitment tools (Ashby is a plus) - Sound judgement with confidential information, experience negotiating offers and strong organisation across several live searches - Helpful but not essential: building a sourcing capability, improving recruitment processes or supporting hiring through organisational growth - You thrive when working as part of a team - Comfortable in a fast-paced environment - Last but not least, you’ll have no ego! What You’ll Get - Private Health Care (Vitality) - Hybrid Working (3 days in office) - Travel Insurance - Competitive Base Salary - Company Bonus Scheme - Paid for AI Subscription (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini) - Market-Leading Training Programme - Recognition & Reward Scheme - Annual Company Conference - Regular Happy Hours & Team Lunches - Free Coffee, Drinks & Snacks What’s the next step? Our hiring process ensures we're recruiting the right people for the role. We ensure that people are as suitable for us as we are for them. If you like the sound of what we're all about at Quantum and want to join a team where you can make an impact, please apply or contact us at careers@quantum.media.